Arsenal need to be ruthless on and off the pitch

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone is joined by Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke to pick over the poor performance at home to Brighton that effectively ended Arsenal's pursuit of the title.

With people making huge journeys to the Emirates and it simultaneously emptying out before the full time whistle there's a discussion what it means to be a supporter of this football club.

We discuss the team and the possible big changes and clearouts that may well happen this summer.

And Ian chooses a song that produces a visceral reaction from Amy that is worth listening to the end for.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:02.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.6	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:20.0	Welcome to Hand-break-off, the Arsenal Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:24.9	We'll be talking about the Brighton game and what went wrong yesterday at the Emirates. I'm here with
0:31.1	Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clark. Good morning. Hi-ya. Morning. Hi-ya.
0:42.5	I did see Amy briefly yesterday, but she had a slightly far away looking her eyes, looking at the Brighton fan celebrating.
0:44.1	It was fair enough, really.
0:45.4	Obviously, it might be a bit painful to relive yesterday afternoon.
0:49.2	So before we do that, if you want to hear something funny, my son, Alexander, flew down
0:53.7	from, and then back to
0:55.7	Glasgow for yesterday's game. And it was a nightmare journey. He forgot his house key. He missed
1:02.7	the first flight down, got very stressed, had to get a later flight, arrived at the stadium
1:06.8	with about two minutes of spare, and then on the way back, oh, watch the game, obviously.
1:11.3	And then on the way back, they cancelled his ticket and he had to beg them to put him on the last
1:16.1	flight home and he had to sprint to the gate and he only just caught his flight home in time.
1:20.7	So what I'm saying is, however bad you felt your day was, his was slightly worse.
1:25.3	And he actually phoned me to tell me that
1:27.5	because he knew it would cheer me up.
1:29.9	So what I thought I'd ask was,
1:31.3	what's your worst football journey?
1:32.7	What is your worst football journey?
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